Sobreaviso Horas Quotes & Sayings

No fiction can have real interest if the central character is not an agent struggling for his or her own goals but a victim, subject to the will of others. (Failure to recognize that the central character must act, not simply be acted upon, is the single most common mistake in the fiction of beginners.) — John Gardner

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. — Helen Keller

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch. — Bryant McGill

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root. — Loren Eiseley

She gives him an LED smile: light, but no heat. — Margaret Atwood

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word. — Mark Dever

His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So — John Milton

Queen's knight," he said quietly. "To queen two." It was, he knew, a dangerous opening. — Diana Gabaldon

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living. — Sue Townsend